CS Lewis is better known for his Narnia series; however, my most favorite book from him would have to be The Screwtape Letters. Okay, The Screwtape Letters might not be your run in the mill book, but it does offer plenty of insights whether you are a Christian or not. Lewis initially published this book in 1942 and it chronicles how a senior demon, Screwtape, admonishes and ...

CS Lewis is a popular figure in Christianity. He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. There's also a popular belief in Protestantism that Lewis was Roman Catholic. Most Googling I have done dispels this as a myth and places Lewis as an Anglican from the time of his conversion. But ...

... to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it.” One of my favorites. Thank you CS Lewis, for being brilliant.  Friends, if you have not yet read A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken, you are missing out on a treasure.  You will see a side of Lewis that only deep friendship and loss could exhibit.

 â€œIf we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot ...

... week I've been reading the chapter 'Friendship' on CS Lewis' book, The Four Loves. He makes an interesting point that ... is that it looks exclusively at the same truth and it never excludes others in the same way that Eros does. Friendship, according to Lewis, is where two people turn, look at each other, and say "You too? I thought I was the only one" and mutual truth ...

... "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptized in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away ... the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis re-converted to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman ... began improving in 1962 and he returned that April. Lewis's health continued to improve, and according to his friend ...

... it appears. Its claiming a central position is disease."*1 Lewis went on to say the only way to cure this disease was to look away from self to the greater world so that thoughts of self would fade. ... be a poet veiled an intense self-absorption. Although this realisation was certainly a watershed in the life of Lewis the poet, it did not mark the end of his desire for fame as a poet. Instead, ...

... But I do remember the day. What you may not know is that another famous person died on that same day: C. S. Lewis. As a young teenager looking for rational reasons to support my faith, I found ... has come close to influencing Christian thought in the 20th and 21st centuries more than he. That is why I believe Lewis has been the single most influential Christian of the 20th century. No one -- not ...

Today is the 111th anniversary of the birth of C.S. Lewis, born November 29, 1898. "Meet" Lewis in my book, ... , It's a Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Carol. Take an imaginative journey with Lewis and an atheist as they discuss a wide range of topics and travel to places important in the life of C.S. Lewis. Makes a great Christmas gift for an open-minded skeptic or anyone interested in ...

... to extend control over every aspect of our lives, doesn't it? Lewis paints the dangers of bureaucracy and the effects of bad (and ... bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men."C.S.Lewis gave us so to think about, mull over and contend with. I'm very thankful that ... work called Between Heaven and Hell, featuring Lewis, Kennedy and Aldous Huxley, who also died that day. ...

... us the way" and "charted the course for us," and goes on to quote C.S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis once wrote: "We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means ... economic expansion in American history. His policies worked! He charted the course for us. C. S. Lewis once wrote: "We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means ...

I thought we might look at a few of the quotes of C.S. Lewis today. I am not a scholar of his writing, although I would like to be. Please sit back, relax, and ponder just five quotes which touched my hear. ... cannot be is moderately important. You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. C. S. Lewis Do you have words of wisdom which point you back to God and His Word, that ...

... , and Waipo'o Falls, on Hawaii's island of Kaua'i Everyone who has read C.S. Lewis must be familiar with his vivid descriptions of natural landscapes hinting that a revelation of beauty and exuberant ... of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in." From "The Weight of Glory" by C.S. Lewis, 1942 _

111 years ago today, C.S. Lewis was born. We recall some of what C.S. Lewis told us:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own ...

If you know me well, you know that one of my favorite authors is C.S.Lewis. Here is my new favorite quote: "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At ... an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself." C.S.Lewis